APUSH Themes
"Consolidated Government"
What is Politics and Power?
An American soldier and statesman who served as the seventh president of the United States from 1829 to 1837. Infamous for creating the Indian Removal Act and starting the Trail of Tears.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
A burst of major inventions and economic expansion and the use of machine technology that changed industries like cotton textiles and iron.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The first women's rights convention held in New York in 1848 that resulted in a manifesto extending to women the Republican ideology of the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
A tariff enacted in 1828 that raised duties significantly on raw materials, textiles, and iron goods. It enraged the South.
What was the Tariff of Abominations?
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
What is Work, Exchange, & Technology?
An abolitionist who co-organized the Seneca Falls Convention and co-created the Declaration of Sentiments.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
The social reform movement to end slavery immediately. Began in the 1830s.
What is Abolitionism?
The forced westward journey of Cherokees from their lands in Georgia to present day Oklahoma.
What was the Trail of Tears?
An American preacher and clergyman during post Civil War. Spread the belief of "Free Will".
Who was Lyman Beecher?
The Mexican American War
What is America in the World?
Founder of Texas and colonized it by bringing 300 families there.
Who is Stephan Austin?
A highly organized group of insiders that directs a political party. Usually run by professional politicians.
What is a Political Machine?
The dramatic increase between 1820 and 1850 in the exchange of goods and services in market transactions.
What was the Market Revolution?
The slave trade system in the interior of the country that fed slaves to the Cotton South.
What was the Inland System?
Black Protestantism
What is Culture and Society?
A wealthy Boston merchant who copied drawings of British machines to help American mechanics go against their British rivals and co-founded the Boston Manufacturing Company. Invented a labor production system named after him.
Who is Francis Cabot Lowell?
A system of social and economic organization based on the ownership of goods or state control of the economy.
What is Socialism?
Second major economic crisis of the U.S, which led to hard times from 1837 to 1843.
What was the Panic of 1837?
A term referring to the assertion by Elizabeth Stanton and other female abolitionists that traditional gender roles and restrictions were a form of slavery.
What is Domestic Slavery?
What is American and National Identity?
An abolitionist who created his own weekly newspaper called "The Liberator" and founded the New England Anti-Slavery Society.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The Old South gentry that had mansions, acted like English gentry, and feared government interference with their slave property.
What is Republican Aristocracy?
A literary explosion during the 1840s inspired by Transcendentalism and Individualism.
What was the American Renaissance?
A term for racial mixing and intermarriage, almost universally opposed by Whites in the U.S. in the 1800s.
What is Amalgamation?